{"id":1972,"date":"2010-02-02T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2010-02-02T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:25:32","slug":"amelia-in-stores-todaycomics-shops-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"Amelia &#8211; In Stores Today\/Comics Shops Tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"amelia_jacket\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/02\/amelia_jacket.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1973 centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/02\/amelia_jacket.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"amelia_jacket\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Amelia Earhart &#8211; This Broad Ocean<\/em> is available in bookstores today, and will be in comics shops on Wednesday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not actually sure what the status of the book is as far as the &#8220;big box&#8221; stores go, but Borders for whatever reason has not carried my stuff in-store in the past, whereas Barnes &amp; Noble has, but I&#8217;ll update when I find out the skinny.\u00a0 In the meantime, here are a couple of recent starred (!) reviews to note:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bccb.lis.illinois.edu\/0210star.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Bulletin of the Center for Children&#8217;s Books<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; I can&#8217;t actually link to the review since it&#8217;s behind a pay wall, but here&#8217;s the obvious pull quote: &#8221; Coupled with the rich prose, Towle\u2019s detailed art truly makes this stellar book a visual feast. Like Earhart herself, this book ought to soar exuberantly into the hearts of its readers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And a big thanks to Tom over at ComicsReporter.com for a great shout-out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/this_isnt_a_library_new_and_notable_releases_to_the_comics_direct_marketeee\/\" target=\"_blank\">this week&#8217;s &#8220;New and Notable Releases&#8221;<\/a> section!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"int_page_55\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/02\/int_page_55.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1974 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/02\/int_page_55.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"int_page_55\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia Earhart &#8211; This Broad Ocean is available in bookstores today, and will be in comics shops on Wednesday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not actually sure what the status of the book is as far as the &#8220;big box&#8221; stores go, but Borders for whatever reason has not carried my stuff in-store in the past, whereas Barnes &amp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1972\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-vO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}